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blafen

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    Puna, Hawaii.
  • Biography
    I am too lazy to think of stuff for biographies.
  • Interests
    Blacksmithing, gunsmithing, other smithing related activites.
  • Occupation
    severely underpaid blacksmith.
  1. In front of the house I am renting there is a gong made from old oxygen tank with the bottom cut off and an eye welded to the top so it can hang from a little structure made of header beams.
  2. Files- flat carbon steel tools covered in tiny teeth designed to fill up with crap and gouge your workpiece. Drill bits- used to make a hole halfway through something, then break forcing you to start all over again. Taps- made specifically to ruin the inside of a good hole before breaking off and forcing you to start all over again in this respect i is closely related to he drill bit. Vernier Calipers- Very handy tools that show you how far past the line you cut so you can throw that piece in the scrap pile nd start all over. Hold down tool- designed to sit in the pritchel hole of your anvil and never hold anything because you put oil on it, again, and now it wont hold anything, also serves the purpose of slipping out from under your hammer so you hit your workpiece fingers or anvil face.
  3. Ive never hot forged brass before, but I have cold forged a bit, you can move it quite a bit if you anneal regularly. To anneal brass you heat it up ( I got it to approximately the same heat as non magnetic for steel) and then quemch it in water and it will be dead soft.
  4. I have seen large deep coal forges with a side draft but Im not sure how something that small would work, although it is always worth a try.
  5. Well I dont know I'm only about 6' 2" 240 and my right arm is only a few inches larger than my left, but then I again I havent had much forge time for quite a while. But I have seen all kinds of smiths, big smiths little smiths lady smiths and kid smiths so I think the only accurate way to determine a blacksmith is with a strong arm to weak arm ratio ie if strong arm = 1.5 weak arm diameters you oughtta be a smith.
  6. I have made gun parts, but only for myself, I have in the works right now an underhammer musket that is made entirely from scratch (except the barrel, that I only had to thread for a breech plug) all the parts are hand filed and forged from scrap metal pieces found in the shop, and the stock is cut from a giant chunk of koa wood with a tiny handsaw. A schuestzen style finger lever should not be too difficult, I would make a bending jig so you can knock out several of them, believe me you wont want to build just one gun or gun part its almost as addictive as blacksmithing itself. Here it is still under construction, I have since made some thick plates to attach the breech to the action and close up the top of the action more, and am working on making a floorplate for the reciever, and I still need to do some work on the stock. keep in mind this isnt a traditional design its something I designed and built for myself wanting the fastest possible locktime I opted for an underhammer, but a traditional design would be just as easily done. Edited to fix spelling.
  7. Thats quite the neat round thingy.
  8. I take anything I dont want to rust and submerge it in used motor oil, boom no rust EVER, of course to use or examine anything you have to fish it out of a vat of black bubbling goo but it works.
  9. take some borax and make a paste with a little bit of water and and rub your hands with it. It is abrasive enough to remove most grease and oil and even superglue.
  10. crap would fall into because gravity hapens to pull that way.
  11. Yeah take it from it is quite disheartening to a beginner to get what they think is a nice solid pattern welded billet that falls apart when they try to forge it into a knife.
  12. By the way there is no cure, i have been forging for a few years and lately have lost my employment and am broke so i cant even afford propane or a big enough geneator to run a shop vac, so i have a small hand bellows and a charcoal forge that i run on on homemade charcoal, sorry buddy your hooked.
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